Articles

The German Rescue of the Eurozone: How Germany Is Getting the Europe It Always WantedDavid Art examines Germany’s role in managing the Eurozone crisis. He ﬁnds that Chancellor Angela Merkel has used the crisis to reassert long-standing German preferences on ﬁscal and monetary policy. He argues that the German rescue of the Eurozone has thus come on German terms and constitutes a major institutional redesign of the European Union.

Vested Interests and Political Institutions
TERRY M. MOE maintains that vested interests need to be brought to the center of the theory of political institutions. He sets out some basic theoretical building blocks that bear on their behavior, power, and institutional consequences. He then applies these general arguments to the case of American education reform.

Ignorant Mobs or Rational Actors? Understanding Support for Venezuela’s “Bolivarian Revolution”PASCAL LUPIEN addresses the presumption of irrationality of the poor and the resurgence of populism in Latin America. He considers the perspectives of supporters of the late Hugo Chávez and his “Bolivarian Revolution.” He ﬁnds that their support is based on concrete, tangible beneﬁts and that they view political developments with a more critical eye than they are generally given credit for.

ONLINE SYMPOSIUM

Candidate Selection Process

The Academy of Political Science and Political Science Quarterly present an online symposium focused on the candidate selection process. The scope of the articles included in the symposium is threefold: review the reasons why candidate recruiting is so critical to the success of political parties; evaluate how candidates assess personal and political choices and the way in which ambition endures over time; and, examine how the changing campaign finance landscape affects the resources available to those who consider running for political office.

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With neither an ideological nor a partisan bias, PSQ looks at facts and analyzes data objectively to help readers understand what is really going on in national and world affairs.